Editing No. 4 Commando (section)

===Operation Puma===
After returning from Norway, training started for [[Operation Puma]], the occupation of the [[Canary Islands]]. The operation was planned following intelligence that Spain was going to join the war on the side of the [[Axis forces]]. The intention was to prevent Germany using the islands as a [[U-boat]] base. The force assembled included five commando units, an army [[brigade]], two [[Royal Marine]] brigades and supporting arms. Training for Operation Puma culminated in landing exercises in the [[Hebrides]] from the [[Landing Ship, Infantry]] [[HMS Royal Scotsman|HMS ''Royal Scotsman'']]. The operation was renamed [[Operation Pilgrim]] and after a number of delays was put on hold by the Chiefs-of-Staff. On 13 September a token force including a troop from No. 4 Commando was dispatched to [[West Africa]]. The troop was based in [[Sierra Leone]] and [[Nigeria]] until returning to Britain in February 1942, after the cancellation of the operation. While this was happening a new [[second in command]] (2IC) was appointed, [[Major (rank)|Major]] Charles Vaughan, and a [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] [[Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat|Lord Lovat]] joined the unit as the training officer. Lovat had been attached to the Lofoten raid as an observer and had applied for a posting to the commandos.<ref>{{harvnb|Dunning|2003|pp=44–49}}</ref>